Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:53:57 am
In their new report on the rise of extremism in the US, the Anti-Defamation League singled out Glenn Beck as “most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger.” Obviously, Beck didn’t like this very much. So he responded yesterday on his radio show ...

Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:18:31 pm
Sarah Palin says she would consider running on a ticket with the craziest Fox News ranter, the man the Anti-Defamation League singled out as “most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger:” Sarah Palin: ‘We’ll see’ about run with Glenn Beck. Palin ...

Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:37:38 pm
The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman interviewed science historian Spencer Weart about the stolen climate science emails (known at the more hysterical blogs as the “scandal of the century”); Weart has a good perspective on the nontroversy. Andrew Freedman: What effects do you think this will have on public perceptions of ...

Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:19:34 am
If you want to know if someone’s blowing a dog whistle, ask the dogs. Beck insists his critics are imagining things, that he does not engage in racial fear-mongering, that a string of guests with ties to hate groups do not form a meaningful pattern, and that he’s not a ...

Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:22:41 pm
Now available at Lulu.com in time for Christmas and the New Year — the Little Green Footballs 2010 Calendar, featuring 13 beautiful high resolution versions of photographs I’ve posted at LGF. It's $24.99, Lulu.com handles all the printing and shipping, I get 10 bucks, and they get the difference. Not ...

Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:33:28 pm
“Today Now!” is one of the Onion’s more brutal media parody shows, and this is one of their more brutal episodes. [Video]

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:19:33 am
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:55:37 am
At a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects in civilian court in New York. Holder said he knows “we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the battlefield ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:38:10 pm
Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden sums up Barack Obama in racially charged language, saying Obama has no “blood impulse” to be an American. This kind of stuff is becoming more and more open in “conservative” media. It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06:12 am
The Anti-Defamation League has released a detailed report on the increasing anger and hostility among the right wing, singling out many of the same personalities and issues on which LGF has been focusing recently. This is the index page with summaries of the main points: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government ...

Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:57:01 am
When NASA deliberately crashed the LCROSS satellite into the moon last month, the media spun the event as a dud because the impact didn’t create a huge glowing explosion and pretty pictures for the nightly news. In fact, it wasn’t even visible from Earth at all. But it was no dud, ...

Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:09:42 am
The big news of the morning is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay will be tried in New York in civilian court. “I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American ...

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:28:47 pm
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Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:55:12 am
It turns out that financial analyst/nativist Lou Dobbs didn’t quit his CNN anchor job completely of his own volition. He was given an ultimatum by CNN president Jonathan Klein. Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel’s most outspoken anchor. Mr. Dobbs ...

Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:52:11 pm
The crossover between Fox News and the farthest reaches of the kookosphere proceeds at an accelerating pace, as frequent Glenn Beck guest host and Fox contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano has an extended chat with conspiracy monger Alex Jones about their mutual enemy, the US government: YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano ...

Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:52:14 am
Jon Stewart catches Fox News and Sean Hannity red-handed in their coverage of Michele Bachmann’s “house call” rally, slipping in footage from the September 12th tea party in Washington DC to make Bachmann’s rally look bigger: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage. [Video]

Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:50:43 am
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who’s been leading the Obama administration’s charge against Fox News (and was promptly smeared as a commie sympathizer by Glenn Beck), will be stepping down at the end of the month. This move has nothing to do with the Fox News issues, however — she ...

Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:53:42 pm
Here’s the kind of brain food you don’t usually get from US media; the BBC’s The Intelligence Squared Debate, in a five-part YouTube playlist. The motion: “Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?” Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher ...

Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:01:09 pm
Jon Stewart totally devours the scenery in a dead-on parody of the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour. [Video]

Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:48:36 am
There are unconfirmed reports that Major Malik Nadal Hasan was shouting “Allah Akbar” during his alleged shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. CBS Video President Obama made a statement today, urging people not to jump to conclusions. We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to ...

Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:35:46 pm
There’s been a shooting incident at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, with up to 7 people dead and at least 12 wounded (this CBS 4 article says 20 wounded): Reports: Multiple Soldiers Shot At Ft. Hood In Texas. FORT HOOD, Texas (CBS) ― Multiple soldiers were shot at ...

Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:33:50 pm
Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. Multiple sources ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:33:56 pm
Here’s an interesting contrast between the GOP, which spent $1.4 million on a buggy, incomplete website redesign, and the Democratic White House, where they just launched a redesign of the site using the open source Content Management System (CMS), Drupal. (And it looks great.) Publisher Tim O’Reilly has a good piece ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08:13 am
In the New York Daily News, political correspondent Michael Saul has a piece about the crudely faked “Obama thesis” that tricked Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of right wing bloggers: Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize. “So here is who we have ...

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:19:16 am
Barrett Brown has another funny (because it’s true!) piece at True/Slant about his adventures in the netherworld of Internet stalkerdom, and the deranged characters who’ve dedicated their shabby lives and shabbier blogs to posting weird childish smears of yours truly: In Which I Try My Hand at Cartooning and Subsequently ...